• IHeartBadCode
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    247 days ago

    it physically lives in your RAM for the duration of the stream.

    It physically lives encrypted in your RAM and only temporarily. Remember TPM exists.

    • @Openopenopenopen@lemmy.world
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      127 days ago

      storing a movie in RAM does not count as having a physical copy of the movie. While RAM is a form of physical media, the data stored in RAM is volatile and temporary. A physical copy of a movie typically refers to a more permanent and tangible form of storage, such as on a hard drive, SSD, USB flash drive, CD, DVD, or Blu-ray disc.

    • Snot Flickerman
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      7 days ago

      Still there for the duration. Being encrypted just makes it akin to being inside a locked box. Being in RAM is like it being transferred in an escrow service.

      • IHeartBadCode
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        127 days ago

        I guess. Technically. I don’t usually count encrypted without the ability to decrypt as useful, but, I’ll give you the up arrow because technically correct is the best kind of correct.

        • Snot Flickerman
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          Thanks, my point is simply just that data is still physical, no matter what.

          A document locked inside a box that I personally don’t have a key to doesn’t make the document inside of it non-existent, just inaccessible to me, personally.

          • downpunxx
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            117 days ago

            all this is understood, but the access is what’s paramount, not the state of the media

          • @0x0@programming.dev
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            25 days ago

            Thanks, my point is simply just that data is still physical, no matter what.

            Turn off the PC and see how well that no-matter-what applies…

            A document locked inside a box that I personally don’t have a key to doesn’t make the document inside of it non-existent, just inaccessible to me, personally.

            What’s the point of having inaccessible data?

          • @stoy@lemmy.zip
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            56 days ago

            No, the data is not physical, it is either magnetic or electric.

            Since most people still store their media on hard drives most media is purely magnetic.

            In a solid state drive storage chip the data is stored electronicly.